title: Passion and coping: relationships with changes in burnout and goal attainment in collegiate volleyball players.
abstract: This study examined the relationship between harmonious and obsessive passion and coping, and assessed whether coping mediated the relationship between passion types and changes in burnout and goal attainment. College- and university-level volleyball players (N = 421) completed measures of passion, coping, burnout, and goal attainment at the start and end of a season. Results of structural equation modeling, using a true latent change approach, supported a model whereby types of passion were indirectly related to changes in burnout and goal attainment via coping. Harmonious passion was positively related to task-oriented coping which, in turn, was positively associated with change in goal attainment. Obsessive passion was positively associated with disengagement-oriented coping which, in turn, was positively and negatively associated with changes in burnout and goal attainment, respectively. This study identifies coping as a reason why passionate athletes may experience changes in burnout and goal attainment over the course of a season.
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Benjamin J I
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Schellenberg
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gaudreau
authors.forename: Peter R E
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Crocker
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000328:Adult; D056352:Athletes / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation / Q000502:physiology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D054798:Volleyball / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult